All Total War: Pharaoh start positions

Check out where your favorite character starts into the game

While Total War: Pharaoh comes with the option of random start positions – a first for the series –, every character and their corresponding faction still has a standard location to begin the game in when you’re not playing a customized session.

Of course this is of immense importance to your campaign: Different locations will offer a variety of resources to exploit that could make your economic situation easier or more difficult. In Pharaoh, you must also consider that many of the units you can recruit are based on the region you’re in, so your starting location has a great impact on what your armies are going to look and play like. Finally, each location will enable you to fight different types of enemies early on, so that’s another very important aspect of your experience.

As Creative Assembly is revealing more and more details about the game, the Total War: Pharaoh start positions also become known one by one – we’re collecting them all here so you can check out where your favorite faction usually starts the game from.

Total War: Pharaoh – all start positions

Ramesses

Creative Assembly

Ramesses has been put in charge of Sinai by the current ruler of Egypt, putting him somewhat outside the Egyptian arena and into conflict with the Canaanites to the north. With the Mediterranean to the west, the Gulf of Suez to the south and the Gulf of Aqaba to the east, Ramesses can quickly carve out a pretty secure realm. Suez acts as a choke point towards Egypt, which can be easily defended. That should allow the young nobleman, who is out to prove himself as a worthy ruler, to use full force against the Canaanites and Hittites to the north, if he so wishes. Alternatively, the door to Egypt lies very close by as well.

Tausret

Creative Assembly

Tausret starts in Upper Egypt, which is the southern half of the country – this very confusing naming scheme once again shows the importance of the Nile for Egypt's history. The river flows from South to North, so the northern part is downriver and thus called Lower Egypt. That means that Tausret is pretty much surrounded, which makes for plenty of dangers and opportunities.

We’ll update this article with more start positions as they become available.